What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

If you want to see what children can do you must stop giving them things.

To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep himclose two.

The pine stays green in winter wisdom in hardship.

No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.

People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.